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I'm glad the ThreadLocal has gone from the code. I thinks its only fair to tell you Bill that I probably will not be passing in the username and password to each method call. My plan was (is) to use Acegi and get the credentials from that in the method. i think it uses thread locals to hold the credentials.

Even if you are replacing the authentication with Acegi (which is probably the best thing to do anyway) it was a great learning experience for me. Helping people understand Spring helps me understand it better.